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haxit

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From: /home/haxit

Registered: 2008-03-04

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Pacman Freezes

Hello again,
every time I try to download something with pacman, it freezes after a while and i have to start it up again.
What should i do?

Thanks,
HaXiT

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Pacman Freezes

Look at the output of pacman when you add the "--debug" flags and post it here if you are still stuck.

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atomizer

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Registered: 2008-06-13

Posts: 6

Re: Pacman Freezes

Please post result of:
sudo pacman -V (or just pacman -V if you are root)

cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

my idea is: you are using a slow mirror to download stuff from. Let's check anyway.

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,675

Re: Pacman Freezes

This has been happening to me too, ever since I installed Arch. It just freezes and you have to kill it with CTRL-C and then re-run it to continue the download where it left off...

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bslagowski

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 102

Re: Pacman Freezes

I've also had these problems, just beginning the last few days. I haven't had time to look closely at it though, so I didn't feel good about posting anything yet. But if others have a similar issue I may as well chip in

atomizer

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Registered: 2008-06-13

Posts: 6

Re: Pacman Freezes

I have installed Arch yesterday and today I was still running fine and downloading packages at normal speed.

oliver

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Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 289

Re: Pacman Freezes

This has been happening to me too, ever since I installed Arch. It just freezes and you have to kill it with CTRL-C and then re-run it to continue the download where it left off...

change your mirrors.  The connection to the mirror is getting dropped.   I get the same thing sometimes with the ga-tech ftp server when it's in my mirror list

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,675

Re: Pacman Freezes

This has been happening to me too, ever since I installed Arch. It just freezes and you have to kill it with CTRL-C and then re-run it to continue the download where it left off...

change your mirrors.  The connection to the mirror is getting dropped.   I get the same thing sometimes with the ga-tech ftp server when it's in my mirror list

Well, shouldn't pacman re-activate the connection on it's own ? I always have to babysit it, because if I leave it to download something that could take a while and go off doing something else, most of the time I return to see it's downloaded just a little bit and stopped. This is frustrating.

Oh, and I have tried several mirrors, it always happens.

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Kane

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Registered: 2006-10-08

Posts: 220

Re: Pacman Freezes

Ive had the same problem ever since i started using arch, and like moljac ive tried many different mirrors

I always thought it must just have been me, as i never saw anyone else bring it up

atomizer

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Registered: 2008-06-13

Posts: 6

Re: Pacman Freezes

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Imp … erformance

try these things - they could help.

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,675

Re: Pacman Freezes

Yea, I once tried pacman-optimize and it hosed it, I was unable to install/remove/update anything from that point. So I just re-installed....

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